[Discuss] Kubuntu install

[Michael Foltinek]

"smart bootmanager" will be able to list and boot your partitions. Do
a checkdisk (that's what it's called in Windows, right?) in Windows,
and if it says that the filesystem is NOT ok, then I'd give up.

On 7/17/07, Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:
> I decided to try to install Kubuntu on my primary Windows XP computer.
> I wanted to make sure that I did not mess up the Windows MBR so (using
> AMD 64 Alternate version), when it got to the section where it wanted to
> install GRUB on the MBR, I said, "no" and installed it on a floppy
> instead.  I then thought that if I removed the floppy, it would just
> boot to Windows -- but no chance!!!
>
> I tried to use the Windows XP CD in the Recovery mode, and I was going
> to try to FIXBOOT or FIXMBR, but both gave warnings about the likelihood
> of loosing all my partitions.  Probably, this is because when
> installing Kubuntu, I had it resize my C drive partition and used the
> resulting free space for LINUX.  I can boot to Windows using the floppy.
>
> Second problem: in Kubuntu, when I try to go to the system settings and
> look at the hard drives, it says it cannot do so because "Disks &
> Filesystems module is missing". I tried to find this module (whatever it
> is) using Adept, but since I really don't know what it is called, I
> could not find it.
>
>
> Third problem: After rebooting several times, I ended up with a screen
> size of 800X600 which I could not increase. I guess my drivers must have
> disappeared.
>
> I would not mind getting rid of Kubuntu for now (install later on a
> different drive), but how can I best do this without having to go
> through a tremendous hassle getting Window to work again on that computer?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Murray
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